Chapter 31 – Survival (2)
3 am.
Cheon Ha-yeon’s daily life always begins at this time.
There was no point in getting out of her cozy blanket just because she was her.
It was simply because I had to become a person worthy of the small heavenly horse of the Protestant Church.
Since her childhood, she was selected as Socheonma in recognition of her outstanding talent.
It was only a sense of duty that supported her.
She silently accepted the grueling training sessions and the rigorous daily life with no personal time.
As the person who will become the Heavenly Demon, this is the right thing to do.
She thought so
Maybe someone would say that it is a life that has no match for dryness.
Cheon Ha-yeon was not particularly dissatisfied with her own life.
There is joy even in a mechanical life that seems detached from the world.
Lifting her heavy eyelids, she sees a man who is soundly asleep in front of her nose.
She got grumpy and was about to poke her on the cheek, but then she lifted herself up with a gentle smile.
Her long blonde hair, which fell almost to her knees, shone softly in the moonlight streaming through the curtains.
She killed the presence and cautiously entered the bathroom to wash her body.
She lazily finished her shower and went out onto the veranda and opened her window.
Even though the night sky was covered by the night sky.
Beautiful stars were reflected in Cheon Ha-yeon’s eyes.
If you are looking at the whole view of the academy with the soft lighting below it.
This isn’t too bad
She naturally thinks so.
She sat on a nearby chair and combed her silky hair as she gazed up at the twinkling starry sky.
She even applied luxurious balm.
Because men’s clothing using the celestial comics boasted an excessively excellent effect.
Although she had little to show for others.
Cheon Ha-yeon had her own pride in her own fine long hair.
Slowly.
As you enjoy the cool dawn air piercing your lungs, the moon is approaching the west before you know it.
“Did you wake up?”
Without looking back, she said quietly to her steps approaching this way.
“Uh. Smells good. Are you tidying up your hair?”
Kim Mu-gong asked in a slightly tired voice.
“Long hair is uncomfortable in many ways. You have to keep managing it.”
It wasn’t just for that reason.
In any case, it was true that it required a lot more effort than a single shot.
With the table in between, Kim Moo-gong, who looked disheveled, sat down on the other side.
“Ah… I’m dead.”
Kim Mu-gong prostrated his upper body on the table as if he were melting.
“Sleep some more, though. Training is also a day off.”
She was not harsh enough to force Kim Moo-gong, who had been through turbulent events in a few days, to practice the dawn training like repeating it 10,000 times.
Besides, rest was definitely part of the training.
When she received a report on the scene of the incident, Cheon Ha-yeon tried to hold back that she wanted to run right away.
That wasn’t her part.
Disassembling people like pieces of meat takes a much bigger psychological blow than killing them cleanly.
Maybe to the point where it feels pure.
I was worried that Mu-gong Kim, who was far from being a military man, would be able to shoulder the heavy burden of murder.
‘It must have been a waste of time.’
Fortunately, the psychological damage seemed less than expected.
Of course I can’t be sure.
Bad memories are like demons tempting humans.
Normally, it quietly holds its breath inside, but as humans become weaker, it attacks the gap.
“You have to stick to the routine.”
Kim Mu-gong said while stretching.
“How about training while protecting it?”
“That’s a bit. Is it harsh?”
“It’s a joke.”
“It’s not like a joke at all when you say it.”
“Did you hear it? It was half sincere.”
Watching the smile on Cheon Ha-yeon’s lips, Kim Moo-gong let out a deep sigh.
“Is it half right?”
“Okay. Let the truth be left to your judgment.”
“I’ll start practicing at dawn tomorrow.”
“That’s a good resolution.”
“OK.”
Also learning martial arts.
Looking at the stars and tidying up my hair.
Even having small talk with Kim Moo-gong.
After all, life isn’t all that boring.
Some would say it was new, but Cheon Ha-yeon felt that way at this moment.
***
“Yumma, you stepped on my foot.”
“Sorry, but you can step on it! I’m doing it for the first time today.”
“I never stepped on it.”
“You look good. Definitely just.”
“Just what?”
“Ugh…! You’re really fucking stupid Just step on it.”
“Abandon false hopes. Bro Because that will never happen.”
Under the warm spring sun, Mu-gong Kim and Mid-summer moved their bodies.
Today was the day when there was a technique class supervised by President Dokgopae.
This incident, dubbed the ‘vampire incident’, went quietly beyond expectations.
As long as it was clear that blood ties were involved, it could have gone into the dark if things escalated too much.
“Those two are always full of energy.”
“I agree.”
Chun Ha-yeon nodded.
Watching the two train hard, Chun Ha-yeon and Dok-go-pae raised their teacups in an elegant attitude.
At first glance, he looked like a righteous grandson.
The direction of the class that President Dokgopae decided after much thought.
It was Kim Moo-gong and Midsummer Passing Jin.
Geongon Yin-Yangjin.
President Dok-go-pae taught the optimal strategy for the two, who have enormous energy of yin and yang in their bodies.
Due to the characteristics of passing candidates, mutual trust and agreement were important, but this was not something that could be said through words.
In the end, as we worked together, it became like we were bickering like that.
“I’m sorry. No matter how hard I try, I have nothing to teach you. For those who have already walked their own path, poor advice can be poison.”
President Dokgopae stroked his beard with an embarrassed expression.
No matter how much he has the prestige of being the first person in the world, Dokgopae is a person who has pursued only political martial arts all his life.
Naturally, Cheon Ha-yeon, who learned the martial arts of the Demonic Cult, had no choice but to be cautious.
Thanks to this, while Kim Moo-gong and Midsummer were training, Cheon Ha-yeon and President Dok-go-pae sat comfortably in the pavilion and tilted a teacup.
“It’s okay. It is enough to be able to have a few conversations with the President.”
Chun Ha-yeon smiled as she moved her eyes to Kim Mu-gong. I was sipping tea without speaking for a while.
Whoa-!
In an instant, the surface of the ground turned upside down with a tremendous air wave.
“Crazy, did you use your inner skills?”
Mu Gong Kim waved his hand through the scattered stone crumbs and dust.
“Squeeze, squat?”
Midsummer, with a bewildered face, hesitated and scratched his head.
“…Actually, I also write ‘Jjokkeum’.”
“But why are you talking to me? While writing the map.”
Midsummer pursed her lips and protested.
“Sorry. Are you not hurt?”
“Yass. It’s okay except for the messy clothes. You?”
“I’m fine too. But what about this?”
Taegeuk-shaped cracks sprinted across the solid floor of the gymnasium, shattering them in all directions.
It was so disastrous that it needed repairs for a while.
“Don’t worry. When a martial artist learns martial arts, he can make mistakes.”
President Dok-go-pae, who had come near the two of them, laughed.
“Sorry. I write a little out of curiosity.”
“Now that I’ve seen the power, I’ll have to be careful next time. Isn’t it?”
President Dokgopae said with an empty face.
“…Thank you.”
“Thank you.”
The two bowed their heads.
‘Is it stronger than I thought.’
Watching the deep scars that scratched the earth, President Dok-go-pae exclaimed inwardly.
Listening to the conversation between the two, even though I didn’t put all my energy into it, it was enough.
It was difficult even for President Dok-go-pae to guess what would happen when the sum was right.
‘I’m looking forward to it.’
Looking at the cadets this year, it felt like the worries about the future that I had always harbored had disappeared.
President Dokgopae looked up at the clear sky with deeply sunken eyes.
‘Is it about time?’
While whispering inwardly.
***
Starting today, some classes have been replaced with survival techniques to prepare for the assessment.
At first, I doubted that I needed to spend so much time on survival skills.
When I saw the manual sent to my tablet before class, I was speechless.
Midsummer sitting right next to me was even more serious.
I looked at the tablet and my eyes flickered.
“Hey, are you alive?”
“…Can I do all of this?”
“I vote for impossible.”
“Too bad.”
Midsummer licked her lips.
“Don’t worry. I am there.”
“What if we fall apart?”
“Is that so? I guess I should wish her good luck with her next-door friend.”
“Oh, I don’t know. I will follow you unconditionally.”
“I wish it were possible.”
She let out a deep sigh and turned her gaze back to the tablet.
The manual, which seemed to be about the size of a book, covered a wide range of topics such as psychology as well as survival methods in all kinds of places, including inside the gate.
After waiting for a while, a man in military uniform wearing a maroon beret entered the classroom.
“Are you a soldier?”
Midsummer whispered in my ear.
“SART (Airborne Rescue).”
I said with a bitter expression.
“…Uh?”
Midsummer flinched as if thinking of something, then only munched her lips.
I didn’t expect her to be here either.
At one time, I also longed for them.
It would have been okay if I hadn’t dropped out due to an injury caused by a ridiculous mistake of my motive during training.
Of course, if that was the case, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
I must have remembered that I often grumbled and complained to Midsummer.
“It’s okay. Never mind.”
“…Ugh.”
Midsummer carefully put her own hand on her mine.
“Victory. Hello. Cadets. I am Jeon Il-hwan, a sergeant in the Special Search and Rescue Battalion, in charge of the survival class.”
Sergeant Jeon Il-hwan continued his self-introduction while giving a presentation.
“But a soldier is teaching himself. Miraculous.”
Midsummer opened her eyes wide and looked straight ahead.
“After all, there is no expert like me in teaching survival skills in Korea.”
Ordinary unmanned people aren’t interested in survival techniques, so it’s normal.
“You will go to an uninhabited island later and see the evaluation. My role is to make sure that you, the cadets, can go there and survive.”
Surprisingly, everyone listened to Sergeant Jeon Il-hwan seriously. Traditional clichés include Murim people ignoring government forces.
‘Well, that can’t be.’
This is modern
Hyundai was a place where a lot of groups were complicatedly intertwined than I thought, and it was like that.
“We are different from normal people.”
There was one guy who thought he was ignorant.
Kim Yong muttered to himself in a voice loud enough for everyone in the classroom to hear.
It’s unimaginable in the reality I was in, but it wasn’t wrong here.
An unmanned person who can feel and handle internal energy is no different from a superhuman.
The sergeant calmly nodded his head with a calmer expression than he thought.
“Even if I am weak, I am learning martial arts, so of course I know the abilities of the cadets. Unfortunately, he committed himself to the military due to his weak ability to handle internal forces, but you never know what will happen inside the gate or in the remote areas of the earth. Even if you are uninhabited, how long can you survive without water?”
Depending on the state, it would last much longer than ordinary people, but uninhabited people were also human beings.
It is impossible to endure forever without doing at least a fable.
“We must not let precious superhumans like you lose their fighting power or die due to lack of trivial survival skills. This is the purpose of the evaluation of the uninhabited island in the future, starting with survival skills classes.”
But.
After taking them to a deserted island without teaching them anything, survive anyway! There was quite a lot of content to do.
I thought it was like that here too.
It is also an unnecessarily realistic world.
“Before the hard theory class, I brought something that might interest you.”
The sergeant took out items one by one from the heavy backpack behind him and began to show them.
“These are the contents of the survival kit that will be basically provided in the uninhabited island evaluation.”
Although there was no big difference from common items such as first-aid kits, knives, and personal hygiene products.
Unique items using a huge energy source called ‘Magic Stone’ that came out after catching monsters attracted attention.
Even though it’s small, it’s based on magic stones, so it’s a battery with a huge capacity.
Unlike me, Midsummer was staring in a different direction.
“What do you see?”
“Yes?”
Midsummer turned her gaze in the direction she was looking at.
“Is that a condom?”
Midsummer whispered softly in my ear.
“Oh, right.”
I nodded.
It was definitely a condom that stood proudly among the numerous items.
